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Teacher-librarians can have a positive impact on student academic achievement through collaboration with classroom teachers. When teacher-librarians collaborate with teachers on lesson planning, they help develop students' research and study skills, called information literacy. Studies have found improvements in these areas as well as in content areas, as measured by teacher assessments, standardized tests, and exam scores, when teacher-librarians collaborate with classroom teachers.

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Teachers and Tls

Teacher-librarians can have a positive impact on student academic achievement through collaboration with classroom teachers. When teacher-librarians collaborate with teachers on lesson planning, they help develop students' research and study skills, called information literacy. Studies have found improvements in these areas as well as in content areas, as measured by teacher assessments, standardized tests, and exam scores, when teacher-librarians collaborate with classroom teachers.

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Teacher-librarians, through collaboration with

teachers, have an impact on academic achievement


in research and study skills, or information literacy,
and in content areas as measured by teacher
assessment, standardized tests and scholarship
examinations. Haycock, K. (1998).

How to Set
Assignments
to Get the
Results You
Want!

Reinventing school libraries: Alternatives, models and


options for the future. Education Canada, 38, (1), 44-52.

Collaborative Planning/Teaching
With Your Teacher-Librarian.
Collaborative Planning
9 Collaboration in the planning of
lessons or units with colleagues
Things to Think About!
9 What do you want the students to
learn? (research skills/curriculum)
9 How do you want the students to
demonstrate what they have learned?
(end product)
9 How are you going to evaluate the
learning?
9 What resources do you anticipate
needing?
9 Have you structured your lesson/unit
to avoid plagiarism?
9 How long do you anticipate the
lessons/unit will take?
9 How would you like the TeacherLibrarian to be involved?
What to Bring to the Collaborative
Planning Session
9 Appropriate IRPs
9 Existing lessons that might be
relevant
9 Your curricular outcomes for the
unit/lesson
9 Ideas for final products

Be clear in your
own mind what it is
you want the
students to learn
and demonstrate

9 Be able to clearly demonstrate and


communicate how the assignment
meets curricular outcomes as well as
the criteria for evaluation
9 Discuss the relevancy of the assignment
to the student and the curriculum
9 Construct the assignment so students
create new information or demonstrate
information learned in a new format
(this goes a long way to preventing
'copy and paste' or plagiarism)
9 Have students turn in their rough work
with their finished product
9 Always request some form of
bibliography with assignments
9 Encourage the use of a variety of
sources and resources ( books,
reference, Internet, magazines,
newspapers, personal interviews)
9 Check resources used for currency,
authenticity, relevancy and bias

End Products:
Some examples..
9 Create displays (models,
dioramas, stations,
posters, demonstrations)
9 Use other media formats
to display knowledge
(Video, power point ,
audio presentation, web
page)
9 Have students teach other students
what they have learned (jigsaw,
station study, oral presentation,
debate)
9 Have students apply what they have
learned to their own lives (personal
relevance)
9 Create information in a new form
(poetry, games, role-play, skits,
collages, letter to editor)
9 Consider the process as your end
product (notes, bibliography, group
skills, annotated bibliography,
types of resources or variety of
resources used, presentation skills,
organizational skills, work habits)

For further information or


suggestions, please contact your
teacher-librarian, or checkout the
BCTLA website
http://psas.bctf.ca/bctla/

inks

hat Teacher-Librarians can do for


you!

http://virtualbookmark.typepad.com/
http://bctlanewteachers.blogspot.com/
http://www.media-awareness.ca/
http://www.cla.ca/casl/literacyneeds.html
http://www.edu.pe.ca/bil/

uestions To Ask Your TeacherLibrarian

9 Where can I find, or how can I access


___________________________
9 What can you do to help me and my
students
___________________________
9 What resources would you
__________________________
9 What information skills can we
incorporate
______
_
_____

9 Be team teachers and a sounding


board
9 Collaboratively plan/teach lessons or
units with you
9 Instruct your students in information
literacy skills, including searching
techniques, organizational techniques,
note taking, presentation techniques
9 Suggest ways to introduce various
technologies into your curriculum
as well as be a source of
knowledge and expertise for the
integration of information and
communications technologies (ICT) with
teaching and learning
9 Recommend reading material at
appropriate levels
9 Locate relevant materials, including
audiovisual and internet sites, for
your unit or lesson

eachers

&
TeacherLibrarians
Effective
Partners
In
Education

9 Coordinate the purchase of materials


to assist you in the classroom
9 Provide access to additional resources
by networking with other teacherlibrarians
9 Help you access district resources

March 2009

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